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...lose that good feeling about themselves." Ueemaee Russell, 11, who lives on Grape Street (just off "Charcoal Alley," as 103rd Street has been called since it burned), knows that "people are fighting now over dope and getting raped and kidnaped." When gunfire gets too bad near her house, Sixth-Grader Russell deals with it by crawling under...
...11th grader, she interviewed coal miners in Tennessee for a documentary, and—following a stint as a Crimson reporter—she interned at the New York Daily News...
...upstate New York Little League program--pitched the first perfect game in the history of the league, on May 14. The young hurler struck out all 18 batters, leading her team, the Dodgers, to a six-inning, 11-0 victory over the Yankees in Oakfield, N.Y. The shy sixth-grader, who honed her skills playing with her two elder brothers, also boasts a .714 batting average. Sometimes during the season, her mother told reporters, Brownell's teammates teased her, saying she should have stuck to softball like the other girls. We would now like to invite those boys to stick...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...